Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Bradon Forest School is the nearest published school at 2.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN5 0AU
Purton · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Purton
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN5 0AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 0
- Latitude
- 51.582739
- Longitude
- -1.927782
- British National Grid easting
- 405,100
- British National Grid northing
- 187,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Purton · E05013457
- Parish or community
- E04011800
- Westminster constituency
- South Cotswolds · E14001482
- Output area
- E00162973
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 003C · E01031956
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 003 · E02006646
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore SN5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 3.9 km
Bradon Forest School
Academy converter
- 4.1 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.1 km
Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Other crime 1
- Public order 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN5 0 residents
- 302
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
PURTON SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, WILLIS WAY, PURTON, SWINDON, SN5 4BD
ODS code J83006
3.5 km
TINKERS LANE SURGERY
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, SWINDON, SN4 7AT
ODS code J83029
4.7 km
NEW COURT SURGERY
BOROUGH FIELDS, WOOTTON BASSETT, SWINDON, SN4 7AX
ODS code J83055
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Braydon Crossroads
BCT · Purton
- 0.5 miles
Braydon Crossroads
BCT · Purton
- 1.5 miles
Highgate Cottages
BCT · Royal Wootton Bassett
- 1.5 miles
Highgate Cottages
BCT · Royal Wootton Bassett
- 1.6 miles
Brinkworth Road
BCT · Ballards Ash
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 003C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,849 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.